Experience Time: Exploring Ooo with Finn and Jake

Experience Time (initially entitled Adventure Time with Finn & & Jake [2] is an American animated television series produced by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network. The series follows the experiences of Finn (voiced by Jeremy Shada), a human kid, and his finest friend and adoptive sibling Jake (voiced by John DiMaggio), a pet dog with magical powers to alter shape and grow and diminish at will. Finn and Jake reside in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo.

Along the method, they communicate with the other main characters of the show: Princess Bubblegum (voiced by Hynden Walch), The Ice King (voiced by Tom Kenny), and Marceline the Vampire Queen (voiced by Olivia Olson).

The series is based upon a short produced for Frederator's Nicktoons Network animation incubator series Random! Cartoons. After the short became a viral hit on the web, Animation Network picked it up for a full-length series that previewed on March 11, 2010, and formally premiered on April 5, 2010.

The series, which is heavily influenced by the fantasy role-playing video game Dungeons & & Dragons as well as video games, is produced via hand-drawn animation.

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Episodes are created through the procedure of storyboarding, and a single episode takes approximately 9 months to complete. The Experience Time cast records their lines together in group recordings rather than various recording sessions with each voice star, and the series likewise regularly employs visitor stars and actresses for small and repeating characters.

Each Adventure Time episode is about eleven minutes in length; pairs of episodes are often telecast in order to fill a half-hour program time slot.

The series has completed four seasons of twenty-six episodes each, and is currently on its fifth, which debuted on November 12, 2012. Ever since its debut, Adventure Time has been a ratings success for Cartoon Network. As of March 2012, the show is viewed by approximately 2 to 3 million viewers per week.

The show has received positive reviews from critics and has developed a cult following among teenagers and adults, many of whom are attracted due to the series' animation, stories and characters. Adventure Time has also been nominated for five Annie Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Critics' Choice Television Awards, and a Sundance Film Festival Award, among others. In 2013, the series won a Motion Picture Sound Editors Award for the episode "Card Wars". In addition, the series has also produced various clothing and merchandise, video games, comic books, and DVD compilations.